<i>Homo Ludens</i> Revisited: A Theological Inquiry into Being Human from the Perspective of Javanese Children's Play
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Abstract
Abstract: This article revisits the meaning of being human as Homo ludens (the playing human), which was introduced by Johan Huizinga. Drawing on the wisdom of Javanese culture and Christian theology, especially that of Paul Tillich, and Hugo and Karl Rahner, I contribute to the Christian notion that to be human is to play. For Javanese people in Indonesia, play is not something that only children do; rather, it can be seen as the foundation of culture. According to Tillich, human beings experience a tremendous haecceitas (this-ness) when playing. From Karl Rahner's viewpoint, in play a human expresses the fullness of Vorgriff (pre-apprehension) or radical freedom. His brother, Hugo, is of the opinion that human play prepares for the final return of the whole cosmos to God. People who cannot play become estranged from their humanity, their culture, and their quest for the Absolute. Indeed, modern-day Homo ludens has become Homo economicus, having been drawn into what Tillich calls the “threat of nonbeing” by globalization. Revisiting the meaning of play in theological anthropology opens up the possibility of becoming a better people of God in the world.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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